Cotton-cleaner



Patented Nov. 28, 1882 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

(No Model.)

J. E. ENGRAM.

COTTON 'GLEANER.

No. 268,209. l

T -I f PATENT EEtcE.

JOHN E. ENGRAM, OF EUFAULA, ALABAMA.

COTTON-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,209, dated November28, 1882,

Application filed September 30, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN EDWARD ENGRAM, acitizen of the United States, residing at Eufaula, in the county ofBarbour and State of Alabama, having invented a new and ImprovedCotton-Gleaner, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of cottoncleaners used as anaccessory to the common gin to clean the cotton of dust, trash, and dirtimmediately after the cotton passes the brush which takes it from thegin-saws and it consists in the construction and combinationof partshereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation ofacotton-gin. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional elevation of myinvention, showing its relation with a cotton-gin. Fig. 3 is a detailview.

. A represents the saws, and B the brush, commonly used in cotton-gins.

As my invention does not relate to the gin proper, I make no descriptionthereof; but my device is attachedto any Kind of a cotton-gin which usesa rotary brush to clean the cotton from the saw-teeth and to throw orblow it into the lint-room or condenser.

G is an inclined bed made up of pivoted slats 0, like a Venetian blind.These slats 0 may be given any desired pitch by means of theconnecting-rod a, linked bysmall staples to each slat. They usuallystand nearly vertical, about one-halfor three-quarters of an inch apart,their upper faces being given about the incline of their general plane.

I) I) represent two indepemlently-pivoted slats or bars,in each ofwhicha series of wires, d, is fixed, the wires being about a half-inch apartalong the slats I), and the slats are slanted to point the wires out ofthe gin-flue in the direction which the cotton is blown by the gin.

e is an upper pivoted bar or slat, similarly provided with wiresf,pointing in a downward plane out of the flue. The wires are of a sizeand material to spring under pressure and continually restore themselvesto their normal position when the pressure is removed. Their (No model.)

forcibly against them to jar thedust and dirt.

out. To this end the lower set of wires first receives the flying cottonand deflects it to the upper wires, and they in turn deflect it to theouter tier of wires, thus thoroughly beating it in its escapefrom thegin. The dust and dirt, being much heavier than the cotton, especiallyafter the cotton is loosened by the gin, fall to the bottom when sojarred out; and the cotton, gather-ingcontinually against the wires,causes an eddy behind them in the current of air, which leaves the dirtmore free to settle there than in the direct current. The spaces betweenslats c are to allow the dirt to fall out of the machine, and they maybe regulated to any desired width by changing the pitch of the slats.The bars holding the wires may also be set to any desired angle to offermore or less resistance to the flying cotton. The slats c and bars b eare pivoted so closely as to stay in any position in which they are set.

The use of my invention renders the cotton cleaner, and consequentlymore valuable, without any extra cost in the process of ginning andcleaning over the common cost of cleaning.

What I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a cotton gin flue having openingsthrough itsbottom, of deflecting-wires secured within the flue, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with a cotton-gin flue having openings through itsbottom, of adj ustahly-pivoted bars or slats provided withdeflecting-wires, substantially as described. 3. The combination, witha. cotton-gin flue provided with the deflecting-wires described, ofadjustably-pivoted slats in its bottom, having openings between them,substantially as specified.

JOHN EDWARD ENGHAM.

Witnesses: I

J. E. SPANN, A. H. MERRILL.

